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IJ-6 @ STANFORD
** ACADEMIC TRACK **

20 May 2009

THE INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMS
AND THE NEWS


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KEYNOTES

COMMENTS ON THE RELEVANCE OF
INNOVATION JOURNALISM RESEARCH

ANDERS FLODSTRÖM, Member of the Governing Board of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology,
University Chancellor of Sweden

AN OVERVIEW: INNOVATION JOURNALISM,
ATTENTION WORK AND THE INNOVATION ECONOMY

DAVID NORDFORS, Founding Executive Director,
VINNOVA Stanford Research Center of Innovation Journalism

Main themes of IJ-6 Academic Track:

  • How journalism and innovation interact
  • The ability of journalism to cover innovation, and the practices
  • Towards a system view: public attention in innovation ecosystems, its stakeholders, and the interaction between them.
Examples of research topics of interest
  • The concept of attention work, the professional generation and brokering of attention,
  • The concept of innovation communication systems; the flow of attention in innovation systems.
  • How innovation processes and innovation ecosystems interact with public attention, with news media as an actor
  • Interdependencies between journalism and other actors in the system.
  • The roles of reputation and trust in the innovation ecosystem
  • How journalism can cover innovation processes and innovation ecosystems
  • Professional codes of ethics and principles of innovation journalism
  • How newsroom and other professional organization affect the coverage of innovation
  • Business Models for innovation journalism
  • How journalism plays a part in connecting innovation with various publics and with democratic processes and the public interest.
  • Models of innovation and the media, including firm, industry and economy-wide innovation systems
  • State of the art as well as theory and practice in the teaching of innovation journalism
  • Public narratives of innovation